Happy Middle of the week, peeps, and welcome to the Mid Week Tease. As ever, a big thank you to the awesome Sandra Bunino for bringing us together every week.

I'm teasing from my upcoming release, Her Lion Protector which is releasing April 28th and is book three in The Protectors Series.

To set the scene, Leon's lion is out on the prowl, when he picks up the trail of an all too familiar scent. Following it he finds the woman he's always thought of as the little sister he never had. Leon and Rebecca have grown up together, but they haven't seen each other in a number of years....and he finds his mate having sex against a tree with a human. I pick up this scene after he's scared the boy away...

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“Did he hurt you?” he asked, and her tear-stained gaze swung to his face. It made Leon want to shift and go after that fucker all over again, and her eyes widened at the furious growl that he couldn’t stop from making. “I mean, I know he did, and—”She pulled away from him, and curled up into a tight ball, knees drawn up to her chest, and shook her head.“Rebecca, answer me. This is important, because if he did something you didn’t want him to, so help me, I’ll rip his fucking dick off with my hands and feed it to him. No one hurts what’s mi…”He stopped himself just in time, and slammed his mouth shut. Fuck, she didn’t need him to get all territorial and possessive now. He had no right to be, no matter what his lion was roaring at him. The animal might want her, and be furious that she’d given her virginity to someone else, but that meant fuck all right now. This was Rebecca, and her parents would have his hide for even thinking about her in those terms, let alone trying anything on.Instead of answering him Rebecca burst into tears, and shook her head. It made him conjure up all sorts of scenarios, and he ached to hold her in his arms and comfort her. Bearing in mind that he was butt naked, and his stash of clothes was over a mile away that wasn’t an option right now. So, instead, he stayed where he was, and gently patted her bent head instead. When the first storm of her tears finally abated he nudged her chin up with his knuckles to make her look at him.“Tell me what happened, pipsqueak, and we’ll go from there.”The ghost of a smile kicked up her lips, and Leon’s heart turned over in his chest. She had always been beautiful, but in the few years since he’d seen her she’d grown up. He’d have to be blind to miss the curves filling out her clothes, and the mile long shapely legs. The high-heeled sandals were an unusual addition, and his damn tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth. With those killer heels on, kissing her would be a doddle.Leon shook his head and swallowed a groan. He didn’t need those errant thoughts now. It seemed his beast vacillated from wanting to kill to wanting to fuck. Neither of which was an option right now, nor in the foreseeable future, damn it.Fuck him, though, if the pictures taking pride of place in her parents’ living room hadn’t done her justice. His lion had appreciated the view then, but it paled into insignificance with being confronted with the living, breathing person. Her scent pulled him under and her conflicted emotions battered his soul.When he’d first scented her, it had been the sweet musk of aroused woman. Something had clearly gone wrong though, and he balled his free hand into a fist. That fucker had no clue what to do with the gift of taking her virginity, and his lion roared.It should have been me.Rebecca made a sound that sounded suspiciously like a moan, and that throaty sound shot straight to his cock. He bet she would sound like that as she came.Fuck, thoughts not helping.Leon desperately tried to think unsexy things, but it was useless. With her this close he was running on instinct, his beast too close to the surface to contain.“It wasn’t like that. I wanted him to…I didn’t expect it to hurt that much, that’s all, and it was all for nothing.” He almost missed her hesitant words, and ignoring the ache in his balls, he forced himself to pay attention to what she was saying. “Oh, damn it, this is all my fault, I never should have—”“Bullshit.” His furious curse bounced around the clearing, and a flock of birds took flight. Funny how they didn’t react to his lion, yet his human persona send them scarpering. Losing the fight with himself not to touch her, he framed her face with his hands, and she winced when his claws ran out in his agitation. Her mouth opened slightly and her little pink-tipped tongue ran along the seam of her lips. She didn’t seem aware of what she was doing, and it took every ounce of self-control he had to not dip his head and retrace those strokes with his own tongue. Right now he wanted to kiss her so badly, it was like a physical ache, a knife twisting in his insides, urging him to erase all traces of that asshole, who’d taken her against a damn tree like some sort of mindless, fucking animal. His lion wanted to sink his teeth into her flesh, and cover her in his scent, until no trace of that asshole remained, and everyone knew who she belonged to.Fuck, it should have been him who introduced her to sex, not this shambles of a first time against a fucking tree.“None of this is your fault. It’s his. That asshole only cared about his own needs. It’s not like that when…fuck it.” He let his words trail off, his lion too furious to allow him to continue, and he knew his voice sounded more animal than human.Rebecca’s heart rate kicked up, her pupils dilated and she leaned closer until their breaths mingled, and her rapid exhalations scorched his skin. Whatever was happening here, between them, she felt it, too. He sensed her arousal, her confusion, her need. It matched his own, and when she brought her hands up to trace his pectorals, Leon wanted nothing more than to take her up on the invitation her body was giving him. She grew wet for him. His nostrils flared pulling her intoxicating scent deep into his lungs and his lion purred his pleasure.The sound seemed to bring Rebecca out of her trance, because she went a little cross-eyed, blushed the most delightful shade of crimson, and hastily pulled her hands away. Nonetheless his skin burned, as though she had left her handprints imprinted on it, and, groaning under his breath, Leon straightened and turned his back on her.“Look, this is not the place to discuss this. Let me get my clothes and my bike, and I’ll take you back to mine to freshen up. You can’t go home looking like that. Stay here, I won’t be long.”In a bone-jarring flash he was back in his lion form, and Rebecca’s screech of surprise echoed in his ears, as he took off with a giant leap.It wasn’t safe for her to be out there on her own, but he had no choice but to leave her. If he stayed… no, he needed to run off this… this thing, until he had his libido firmly back under control.

Never mess with the fates…

Rebecca Hastings has no intention on settling down with some over possessive shifter. This fledgling guardian witch might need to have sex to awaken her powers, but surely anyone will do?

When Lion Shifter Leon Friars interrupts her outdoor tryst with the college heart throb, she is simultaneously relieved and shocked. This sex on legs hunk can’t be the boy she grew up with. This Protector makes her want to forget all of her plans, and just submit, and that will never do.

Being mated to Rebecca had not been in Leon’s plans either, but his lion has spoken. When Rebecca denies the bond between them, a heartbroken and furious Leon allows her to run away.

The fates will not be denied, however, and when Rebecca returns years later, Leon has to decide whether he can ever trust her again.

Is it too little, too late, or does love conquer all—fates included?

Scheduled for Release April 28th

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Yep, he definitely needs to run it off. LOL. You do know how to torture your characters, D. Poor Leon.

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I like to spin sensual, sassy, and sexy tales involving alpha heroes to die for, and heroines who give as good as they get. From contemporary to paranormal, BDSM to F/F, M/M, and Ménage, haunting love stories are guaranteed.